Ireland is becoming an international centre for commercial dispute resolution. The legal framework provided by the Mediation Act and a proactive judiciary have put ADR in pole position for resolving disputes. This introduces new challenges for all branches of the legal profession. Listen to the views of a high court judge, a litigation partner and an academic as they debate the opportunities for dispute resolution practitioners post Brexit.
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How To Design Great Educational Video for Higher Education
Designing engaging educational video takes a little bit of science and a little bit of Hollywood.
Video is king. 80% of all 18-49 year olds watch YouTube, with more than 1 billion hours of video watched on the platform every single day. Notably, over half of users say they use the site to “figure out how to do things they haven’t done before” arguably making it one of the world’s largest online education platforms.(1)
What this also means is that the current generation of students no longer have the patience and motivation to sit through hour-long recordings of traditional lectures.
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The lawyers of the future don’t just need legal knowledge, they need skills. In law and many related disciplines such as dispute resolution, teaching skills in a face-to-face classroom setting is not only the norm, but often a requirement. In this article, we are going to show that there is another, more efficient and, if done right, more effective way of teaching skills, even to large numbers of students.
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